Maritime History / Naval History

[NETHERLANDS - STATES GENERAL - PROCLAMATION]. Placcaet ende ordonnantie opte wapeninge ende manninge vande schepen, soo ter coopvaerdye als visscherije, uytte Vereenighde Nederlanden over zee varende.
Including: [drop-title:] Instructie voor de Co[m]missarisen in 't Vlije ende inde Sont, omme opsicht te hebben op de uyt-varende ende inkommende oostersche schepen, en[de] Noordt-Drunt ende Noordt-Caep-vaerders.
The Hague, widow and heirs of Hillebrant Jacobsz. van Wouw, 1627. 4to. With woodcut arms of the States General on title-page. Sewn without supports and not bound. [22], [2 blank] pp. Full description

[WATER, Jona Willem te]. Bericht wegens het verongelukte Oost-Indische schip Woestduin; ende reddinge der schepelingen door de gebroeders Naerebout.
Middelburg, P. Gillissen en Zoon, 1780. 8vo. With an engraved title page with 2 oval portraits, and a woodcut headpiece. Contemporary decorated wrappers. 52 pp. Full description

WITSEN, Nicolaes. Aeloude en hedendaegsche scheeps-bouw en bestier...
Amsterdam, Christoffel Cunradus, 1671. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With an engraved title page by Romeyn de Hooghe, 112 full-page engraved plates, 1 folding double-page engraved plate and 7 small engraved plates printed on smaller strips of paper. With a small woodcut ornamental vignette on the title page, woodcut decorated initials and woodcut ornamental tailpieces. Near contemporary (18th-century?) elaborately blind-tooled vellum, sewn on five supports with corresponding raised bands on the spine, with a manuscript title in the second (of six) compartment on the spine, later brown leather ties. [16], 516, 40, [4] pp. Full description